Weekend

My decades-long run of relative good health was over. In the playlist of my life, this was a needle-scratching-vinyl moment

A tariff strategy works only if there are enough domestic goods to replace the tariffed imports

Éanna Ní Lamhna answers your queries on wasp-nest raiders, early-nesting goldfinches and curlew feeding habits

Ella McSweeney: A recent incident in Killary Harbour provides further evidence that the salmon farming system carries too much risk 

That’s precisely the question the National Car Test faces after an unsafe vehicle was passed as fit for the road

The broadcaster, author and RTÉ GAA correspondent and commentator is clear about which actor should play him in a biopic

Ireland’s ocean literature paints a picture of the seas we once had and could yet have again. The way to recover it, and our connection with it, lies in protecting what remains

We keep coming back for more, hoping for rules that will allow us to feel okay about inhabiting ordinary bodies in a culture committed to anxiety and hierarchy

A meal with less meat and dairy is better for our health, for the environment and for our pockets

The new Fine Gael mayor has three big priorities: dementia awareness, getting more girls into sport, and a special St Patrick’s Day project

Ukraine war, growing geopolitical tensions, rise of artificial intelligence and worsening climate crisis cited as factors pushing us towards global catastrophe

Despite my drinking habits moving into the moderate range, the issue of fatigue arose, days, weeks, months and years of feeling ‘a little bit tired’

A photographic portrait of Richard de Courcy, who marked his birthday by ringing the bells of Christ Church Cathedral in Waterford, as he does every Sunday

Where that generation takes society is anyone’s guess but, like the 1980s punk movement, something will erupt when least expected

A Dublin project explores how the world shapes young men by helping some of them to create ‘boys’ as they really see them

In the second column in a monthly series, the 29-year-old commander of a Ukrainian drone unit discusses fighting on while being unable to grieve for those lost in combat and how and when the war might end

An Bord Pleanála has overturned council decision to grant permission for Dawn Meats abbatoir to offload 400,000 litres of treated wastewater into the river every day

Éanna Ní Lamhna on Irish jays, the blackcap’s call and a non-dinosaur tooth

Film-maker John Sayles draws on astonishing people and events to portray acts of betrayal suffered by Native Americans

The tragedy a young mother faced on the Skellig in the late nineteenth century must have been as monumental as the Atlantic outcrop itself

Waterford-based artist Sean Corcoran wants us to think differently about excess of all kinds, through the medium of unwanted mugs, jugs and plates

Fear is determined by storytelling more than by data, and women have been taught to fear being outside for centuries

Berlin-based writer’s latest novel, The Gorgeous Inertia of the Earth, revolves around sculpted objects, absence, death and faith

Alongside the aggression, sarcasm and triumphalism, there were hints of the techno-imperialism that has recently been added to the Maga mix

As Europe faces a new wave of extreme nationalism, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz looks back

And where the war is felt more keenly than the winter, a thaw will be caused not by the sun’s rays, but by blast waves and heat from exploding shells and mines

Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are lining up for a rare event

English violinist is leader of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, whose spring programme ranges from Bowie to Beethoven, via the Beatles and Gatsby-era jazz

On the first anniversary of his death, Ian Baily’s sister Kay Reynolds describes the impact the accusation that the west Cork-based journalist murdered Sophie Toscan du Plantier had on their family

My introduction to art happened in my hometown of Athy, Co Kildare. It was an age of belief; religion dominated everyday thinking and behaviour

Liza Cauldwell began photographing flowers to help process her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment as she navigates through healing

The new Government should ensure the wealth accruing from Irish housing benefits Irish people, not foreign pension funds

Éanna Ní Lamhna on a woeful woodcock, a perished pipistrelle bat and a radiant redshank

How to help? Plant wildflowers, avoid using chemicals and get comfortable with messy, neglected areas

A doctor told me humans are like tuning forks. One tuning fork can force another tuning fork to vibrate if they have the same frequency

The idea that reading is innately virtuous, other than religious material, is modern

Haven’t got a thing to wear? Save money, save the planet, and look fabulous in hired occasion wear

The eco-protesters lost their final Supreme Court appeal 25 years ago at end of January 2000. Where are they now?

Film-maker, photographer and writer Bob Quinn has always refused to conform, but people seemed to love him for it, writes his son

British environmentalist and BBC presenter Chris Packham on battling to save the planet, standing up to his enemies, and how his autism made him hate himself